Links to general online resources on Foucault
This page lists a few general online resources in relation to Foucault’s work, mostly in English. Please let me know in the comments box below of any important links in any language that are missing from this list and I will add them here.
There are still a number of older sites on Foucault’s work online that I have linked to in previous iterations of my site but as these haven’t been updated in recent years I haven’t included them here. If you would like to have a look at these links – and other extinct links – for historical reasons, you can find my old links pages on the wayback machine. (You may need to avert your eyes from the retro amateur 1990s design!)
This page last updated 12 September 2023
Foucault links from 1998
Foucault links from 2000
Foucault links from 2005
Foucault links from 2011
General sites
Centre Michel Foucault
Le Centre Michel Foucault s’est fixé comme objectif, depuis sa création [en 1986], de soutenir et de promouvoir les recherches en cours sur l’œuvre de Michel Foucault.
Foucault.info
An excellent general site on Foucault, run in France, with a number of his texts, a bibliography of Foucault’s work and other material.
Progressive geographies
Stuart Elden’s very active blog contains a wealth of resources on Foucault along with many other topics.
Heterotopian Studies. Michel Foucault’s ideas on heterotopia
Peter Johnson’s site on all things heterotopia. This site was last updated in 2021 and is now only available on the Wayback Machine internet archive.
Foucault et alii
Large Brazilian site on Foucault.
John Protevi’s site
There is a lot of useful course and introductory material on this site.
Michel Foucault Webkatalog – Marc-Christian Jäger’s Foucault Links Page
A huge Foucault links page. More than 1050 Links (Last updated 2009 from what I can see) to Foucault related articles in German, English and French.
Journals
Foucault Studies
This open access peer reviewed journal provides a specifically focused forum for the direct discussion of Foucault’s work, including criticisms, developments and applications, the publication of new translations and reviews and reports of books, conferences and other activities. Articles mostly in English with a few in French. It is currently based at the Copenhagen Business School.
Materiali Foucaultiani
An Italian website and open access peer reviewed journal. Articles published in Italian, English and French.
Genealogy + Critique
A German peer-reviewed open access journal which publishes interdisciplinary research along the lines of the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault (1926–1984) in English, German, and French. G+C was originally a spin-off from the now renamed foucaultblog, which was founded by a group of humanities scholars at the University of Zurich in 2013.
Dorsal. Revista de Estudios Foucaultianos
DORSAL es una Revista digital publicada por CENALTES Ediciones con acceso abierto a su contenido, de periodicidad semestral y editada por la Red Iberoamericana Foucault. En ella se publican artículos de investigación procedentes de distintas disciplinas científicas que utilicen las herramientas teóricas de Michel Foucault o que se centren en el estudio de diversos aspectos de su investigación o de las proyecciones de este trabajo tanto en las humanidades como en las ciencias sociales.
Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy
Established in 2006, PARRHESIA: A JOURNAL OF CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY is dedicated to publishing the latest work on continental philosophy, along with new translations and interviews with contemporary thinkers.
Encyclopedia and Handbook entries
Michel Foucault on Wikipedia (in English)
Please note that there are Wikipedia entries on Foucault in 73 languages
Clare O’Farrell, (2013) Foucault’s thought. In Kaldis, B (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. SAGE Publications, pp. 364-368.
Baker, Bernadette & O’Farrell, Clare (2021) Curriculum influences: William James and Michel Foucault. In Noblit, George W. & Neikirk, Joseph R. (Eds.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford University Press.
O’Farrell, Clare (2013) Michel Foucault: The unconscious of history and culture. In Foot, S & Partner, N (Eds.) The SAGE handbook of historical theory. Sage Publications, pp. 162-182.
Oxford Bibliographies
Michel Foucault by Gavin Kendall, last reviewed 2018
The Literary Encyclopedia
Thacker, Andrew. “Michel Foucault”. The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 March 2003
Stanford Encyclopedia entry
Gary Gutting, 2003, revised 2013. An article which provides a general overview of Foucault’s work from a philosophical point of view.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
‘Michel Foucault, 1926 -1984’ by Mark Kelly
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
‘Foucault and Feminism’, by Aurelia Armstrong.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Ethics by Bob Robinson
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Michel Foucault: Political Thought by Mark Kelly
Encyclopedia Britannica
by James Faubion, last checked 2023
Blogs
Foucault News
maintained by Clare O’Farrell
Progressive Geographies,
maintained by Stuart Elden
Genealogy + Critique blog
founded by a group of humanities scholars at the University of Zurich in 2013.
Heterotopian Studies. Michel Foucault’s ideas on heterotopia
Maintained by Peter Johnson until 2021. Now only available on the Wayback Machine: The Internet Archive.
Foucault Blog
by Jeremy Crampton. No longer being updated as of August 2010
Foucauldian Reflections
by Ali Rizvi. Last post June 2011.
Research Networks and groups
Bibliographical resources
Perlego
This is an online ebook paid subcription service. I have linked to their very substantial collection of books relating to Foucault in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
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